Becoming a Great Mentor™
A developmental Program for People-Centered Leaders
Ignite transformation from the inside out
by developing your mentors.
Let's face it. Great mentors are hard to find, and becoming even rarer within companies and organizations.
Because the hard truth is, cultivating really great mentorship is massively ignored in most places. And that’s a huge problem because we can’t effectively scale our people and culture development, or meet the needs of growing teams and people without clear, consistent, and trustable guidance from humans who have been in our shoes.
Without a network of trusted mentors, our people are left to go it alone, and there’s no clear roadmap to support their careers and growth. And this is especially crucial given the incidence of professional burnout and upheavals in today’s workplace.
Even worse, when our mentors themselves lack the understanding of how to confidently mentor for development, empowerment and self-actualization, they have little to go on except instincts and common sense. While that can be comforting for some, it’s certainly not effective in creating a more agile and responsive culture.
What we really want in our mentoring programs is to help our mentors leverage their innate talents, and longtime professional or disciplinary experience, in service of much greater yield from their gifts of know-how and hard-won wisdom.
Becoming a Great Mentor™ was designed for just these reasons…to give organizations and the people within a path to becoming a more impactful mentor.
In this streamlined and immersive 5-month program, mentors will go from feeling limited in how to mentor to feeling confident in their capacity to intentionally structure a meaningful mentoring relationship and to generate a much wider range of skillful responses that meet people as they are.
When the impact that each mentor can generate is recognized, and then developed, organizations will experience powerful generational shifts in the organization’s capacity to thrive through any challenge.
And, if this is something your organization is missing from your suite of developmental tools, are you ready to help your people become the great mentors they’ve always been destined to be?
Becoming a great mentor means you:
- Become more present and attuned to your mentees needs so you can make the most impact in the limited time you have.
- Understand how your presence and responsiveness are crucial to high impact mentoring relationships.
- Feel more aligned and more deeply connected with the culture you’re a part of.
- Have more confidence and trust in your unique flavor of mentoring.
- Develop more adaptability and agility regardless of what challenges or circumstances might arise.
- Be able to fluidly respond to the unique needs of your mentee without feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
This isn't just a cookie cutter
mentor training.
It's Developmental
We don’t just tell you what/how to do. We help you discover it for yourself… so you can do the same for your mentees.
It's People-centered
We support you to have more empathy, insights about, and attune to the unique person you are mentoring.
It Maps the Process
We provide an end-end overview of a great mentoring process, and outline how to get the most out of every mentor conversation.
What you'll learn
In this 3 to 5-month mentor development program you’ll participate in live-teacher led sessions, and gain access to insightful readings, tools, and specific practices to grow your awareness and effectiveness as an impactful mentor.
You’ll discover how to enhance the quality of your mentoring experiences, leading to more enjoyment and better outcomes for both the mentee and you!
You’ll also receive our essential recommendations drawn from thousands of hours of mentor system development, mentor training programs, mentor coaching and partnering with Fortune 500 companies, public sector organizations, professional bodies, start ups, non-profits and initiatives of all kinds.
In this 5-month mentor development program you'll participate in live-teacher led sessions, and gain access to insightful readings, tools, and specific practices to grow your awareness and effectiveness as an impactful mentor.
You'll discover how to enhance the quality of your mentoring experiences, leading to more enjoyment and better outcomes for both the mentee and you!
You'll also receive our essential recommendations drawn from thousands of hours of mentor system development, mentor training programs, mentor coaching and partnering with Fortune 500 companies, public sector organizations, professional bodies, start ups, non-profits and initiatives of all kinds.
In just 3-months, you will:
- Engage in a path of learning that grounded in and inclusive of the whole lifespan of a mentoring relationship.
- Discover a sometimes overlooked part of the mentoring process that amplifies value for any mentee.
- Develop greater variety and range of responses in the way that you mentor.
- Cultivate a greater listening capacity and pick up on the subtle and unexpressed for more powerful conversations.
- Untie knots for the mentee without needing to give them more knowhow .
- Leverage the innate talents of your mentees which leads to the longterm growth and success of your initiative, system or collective vision.
- Catalyze more innovation and discovery of new possibilities that creates lasting impact for your mentees.
72%
Say mentoring has a POSITIVE IMPACT on organizational performance
78%
Agree or strongly agree that mentoring leads to IMPROVED INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT
53%
Say LOW SKILL LEVELS of their mentors currently hinder mentoring in their organization
Source: HR Research institute Report on The State of Coaching and Mentoring, 2022
How it Works
Live Training Sessions
Three to five monthly 60 minute live training sessions including skills practice, live coaching, guided exploration and peer support.
One-on-One Mentorship
Pace through the course while actively in a mentoring relationship.
Self Paced Online Course
2 hour self-paced online course with readings, tools, self assessments and practices to increase awareness and skills in how to be an effective and impactful mentor.
Meet Our Founder
Rebecca Ejo Colwell
Founder & PRINCIPAL
Hi, I’m Rebecca. I’m a masterful integral facilitator, strategist and coach, co-creator of Integral Facilitator®, and the Founder of Ten Directions. For over thirty years, I have been facilitating and inspiring others to practice facilitative leadership and meet the challenges of a wide range of cultural, systems and social issues. I am one of two world experts in Integral Facilitation®.
My interest in facilitation and leadership dates back to childhood. At an early age, I remember being fascinated by how people got things done together. Witnessing how actively involved my parents were in our larger community, I consistently found myself wondering, “What happens in those conversations where the adults are talking, and what is it that ‘grown-ups’ do to make things happen?”
The curiosity of a young inquisitive mind planted the seeds for a lifelong interest and exploration around leadership and a passion for discovering different ways individuals can create a more positive impact through working better, together.
After 30+ years working, consulting and training leaders and organizations around the globe, I noticed a consistent trend.
Organizations that called on me were struggling because (1) their leaders had never actually been taught the facilitative skills to effectively communicate, collaborate and confidently empower their teams and (2) because leaders lacked the “developmental know-how” they needed to grow people’s innate talent and capacity in service of a shared vision and longterm success.
Time and time again, I saw large initiatives on the brink of collapse – and folks struggling to understand where it all went wrong. And I realized that one of the best places to diagnose organizational challenges was by assessing its leadership, mentorship, learning and meeting culture.
That’s why I created “Becoming a Great Mentor™” because even though mentors are limited in supply, I believe mentors are crucial to creating more thriving relationships, more trust and creative contributions. Great mentoring can be the force that elevates all of us to become fully supported to navigate our challenges and growth edges to achieve more together than we could ever do alone.
I’ve helped leaders in Fortune 500 companies, public sector organizations, start-ups, non-profits, and initiatives of all kinds, discover the transformative power of collaboration and what becomes achievable when we are willing to learn and grow together.
And now, with my Ten Directions team and this new course, we can help you catalyze an inspired mentorship culture that brings your shared vision and people-centered values to life.
Excerpt: "Forward-thinking organizations need to create environments that embrace and unlock the potential of the whole employee," says Linda Jingfang Cai, Global Head of Learning and Talent Development at LinkedIn. However, many organizations invest in mentoring programs to achieve this goal, but they fall short in recognizing the added value of investing in their mentors. When mentors lack the understanding of how to confidently mentor for development, empowerment, and self-actualization, they have little to go on except for their instincts and common sense. This is not effective in creating a more agile and responsive culture.
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